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Last week, co-author of Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of its Heroes and its History B.G. Burkett, shed light on wide-spread and completely false misconceptions surrounding the Vietnam War. While trying to raise funds for a Texas Vietnam memorial, he realized that the media's influence and false coverage had altered the memory of Vietnam for the worse. Correlating Burkett's lecture and the Vietnam War with something the UD core esteems, Thomas G. West, politics professor, drew upon Plato's image of the cave in his introduction. "We here at UD read Plato's Republic and are shown Plato's cave,...

Hello Freeper Family..... Please permit me to announce to you all that B.G. "Jug" Burkett", author of Stolen Valor, will be inducted as an 'honorary' member of the US Army Ranger Hall of Fame this summer. He was notified of this honor this week. I wanted you all to know about this because I know he has a following here. If you know Jug, please pass along your compliments to him for a well deserved honor. Rangers Lead the Way! Ranger Roger Brown Member of the US Army Ranger Hall of Fame www.allamericanrecycling.com

Leaders of prominent "527" military service veterans groups, film producers, Websites and authors who made substantial contributions to the veterans revolt against Senator John Kerry's 2004 Presidential bid were honored by their supporters at an "Un-augural" reception at the National Press Club Thursday. Unlike the scores of balls, parades and fetes typical of the frenetic day, the tongue-in-cheek event at the Club's First Amendment room was, according to organizer Lou Priebe, geared to "celebrate the absence of Senator Kerry from the Inauguration Day proceedings, most particularly the swearing-in ceremony." U.S. Army Infantry veteran Lou Priebe added, "These courageous advocacy groups...

B. G. Burkett, Author of "Stolen Valor" is currently on CSPAN and made the statement that he expects a major revelation about John Kerry's military records in the next few days.

Over the past 20 years, determined Vietnam veteran B. G. "Jug" Burkett has succeeded in challenging hundreds of phony military records — but he has not succeeded in holding the media accountable when they carelessly rely on bogus service stories to make political points. Burkett is now getting some welcome reinforcements: the corps of amateur experts whose instant analysis demolished the credibility of CBS's purported Bush National Guard records. (B. G. Burkett is not to be confused with Bill Burkett, the man who gave the phony documents to CBS.) "The Dan Rathers of the world can no longer put up...

How can I get BG Burkett's (author of Stolen Valor) e-mail address? I am a member of the US Army Ranger Hall of Fame and wish to contact him to have him considered as an honorary member for next years class. Any help would be appreciated. Captain Roger Brown, US Army Ranger (Ret) If you'd rather e-mail me the info instead of posting it, go to www.allamericanrecycling.com click on my bio and hit e-mail at the bottom of the bio.

How can I get BG Burkett's e-mail address? I am a member of the US Army Ranger Hall of Fame and wish to contact him to have him considered as an honorary member for next years class. Any help would be appreciated. Captain Roger Brown, US Army Ranger (Ret)

Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History, by B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley, Dallas, TX: Verity Press, 1998, 692 pages, hardback<snip> One of the most ingrained stereotypes that plague the 3.3 million Americans who served in Vietnam is the tainted image of the Vietnam vet as scruffy, jobless, homeless, mentally unstable, addicted, suicidal, and stranded on the fringes of society. It is an image that has been reinforced by innumerable TV dramas, movies, and newscasts. It is also usually tied to stories about the horrors of war, atrocities, and other dark deeds that,...

Friday, September 03, 2004 Kerry apparently signed Form 180 for Brinkley — thereby waiving confidentiality — but Brinkley is cooperating in the cover-up I had always assumed that Sen. Kerry had himself provided his biographer Douglas Brinkley with Kerry's official military records that were already in Sen. Kerry's hands. But in reviewing Brinkley's citations and references for ToD, I came upon this statement at page 520 of his "Acknowledgements" section (boldface mine): Also with Kerry's permission, I obtained his Navy records and have used them as a reliable source. I don't know any other way to interpret this than to...

Plot thickens after checking records August 27, 2004 BY THOMAS LIPSCOMB In the midst of the controversy between the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and Kerry campaign representatives about Kerry's service in Vietnam, new questions have arisen. The Kerry campaign has repeatedly stated that the official naval records prove the truth of Kerry's assertions about his service. But the official records on Kerry's Web site only add to the confusion. The DD214 form, an official Defense Department document summarizing Kerry's military career posted on johnkerry.com, includes a "Silver Star with combat V." But according to a U.S. Navy spokesman, "Kerry's...

In the midst of the controversy between the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and Kerry campaign representatives about Kerry's service in Vietnam, new questions have arisen. The Kerry campaign has repeatedly stated that the official naval records prove the truth of Kerry's assertions about his service. But the official records on Kerry's Web site only add to the confusion. The DD214 form, an official Defense Department document summarizing Kerry's military career posted on johnkerry.com, includes a "Silver Star with combat V." But according to a U.S. Navy spokesman, "Kerry's record is incorrect. The Navy has never issued a 'combat V'...

From B. G Burkett's great book, "Stolen Valor," pp. 130-138:The TribunalsOn January 31, 1971, an organization called Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) convened what came to be known as the Winter Soldier Investigation. Some of the major organizers included Jane Fonda, Dick Gregory, Phil Ochs, Graham Nash, David Crosby, and actor Donald Sutherland. For four days in a hotel in Detroit, "veteran" after veteran told grisly tales of horror of using prisoners for target practice and throwing them out of helicopters, of cutting off the ears of dead VC, of burning vil­lages and gang-raping women. Lawyer and activist Mark...

I must admit to being of two conflicting minds when it comes to the anti-Kerry activities of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. On the one hand, there is nothing that makes my blood boil more than a fraudulent Vietnam veteran. In their remarkable book Stolen Valor, "Jug" Burkett and Glenna Whitley unmask some 1,500 Vietnam "wannabes," not only the media's favorite dysfunctional vets who, with the often all-too-eager cooperation of the press, attribute their problems with drugs, alcohol, crime, and poverty to their time in Vietnam, but also fixtures at local patriotic affairs who show up to give rousing...

Author and Vietnam historian B. G. Burkett tells NewsMax in an exclusive interview that Senator John Kerry is mired in a quagmire worse than the one he complained about in Vietnam. The controversy may just cost him the presidency, Burkett says. “Kerry keeps losing points every day this controversy wears on in the media,” Burkett told NewsMax shortly before Kerry’s campaign filed a legal complaint with the FEC to stop the Swift Boat Veterans ads. A sign of desperation? Burkett is no stranger to such controversy and measures. He has been sued multiple times after exposing phony military records of...

Vietnam: A Tribute to our Veterans America appreciates its Vietnam veterans more than ever, this 2004 memorial day. Why not stop by and bump this thread with your thoughts on what we learned from fighting that war so valiantly, and then leaving it to the doves in Congress to shutdown. The only way we will see history repeat itself is if we allow it to happen. What were our biggest mistakes? I don't have the answers, but here are a few estimates: Attempted to fight a "legal," regional war limited to one country.Failed to accept and publicize the real cost...

  Part VI - The VVA - The Vietnam Victims of America B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley Exclusive to NewsMax.com: Excerpts from Stolen Valor: How The Vietnam Generation Was Robbed Of its Heroes And its History by B.G. Burkett and Glenna WhitleyTo order Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of its Heros and its History please Click HereWhen Joe Yandle and Eddie Fielding drove up to the liquor store in Boston that June evening in 1972, they were looking for quick drug money. The two men had pulled half-a-dozen stickups already that day. Yandle, frantic for his...

April 27, 2004 -- Check out KerryLied.com. Retired Navy From wintersoldier.com Captain Larry Bailey, a former SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is heading up an effort to put 100,000 people in front of the U.S. Capitol on September 12 for an event intended to "tell the truth about Vietnam veterans, and to counter the lies John Kerry told about them." B.G. "Jug" Burkett, author of the myth-shattering book Stolen Valor, will be one of the speakers.

Meanwhile, Burkett is digging below the surface of the official paperwork -- revealed and yet unrevealed -- hoping that the relatively small Vietnam Swift Boat community will come forth and reveal a more realistic picture of Kerry's truncated tour in Vietnam. That tour was cut short by Kerry invoking an informal regulation that permitted thrice-wounded Navy personnel to leave the combat zone early. Retired Lt. Cmdr. Grant Hibbard, his commanding officer at the time, now says the wound for which Kerry was awarded his first Purple Heart "resembled a scrape from a fingernail." Burkett, who has been receiving intelligence from...

A leading historian of the Vietnam War doubts the Kerry campaign's denials that it is withholding parts of the senator's military records. Since Kerry's presidential campaign made the belated decision to go public with the former Navy lieutenant's records on its Web site, questions about his file – and what he is actually releasing – have deepened. As the Boston Globe reported last week, one former military commander said Kerry had posted his, not Kerry's, after-action report. "All of Sen. Kerry’s U.S. Navy military records will be posted on his Web site," spokesman Michael Meehan has promised. More than 120...

Where: Washington, DC When: Sunday, Sept 12, 2004 2:00-4:00 PM (EDT) Why: To tell the truth about Vietnam veterans. To counter the lies told about Vietnam veterans by John Kerry GROUND RULES 1. This is a peaceful remembrance of the virtues of those with whom we served in Vietnam - those who lived and those who died. We will tell their story and how that contrasts with the label of war criminals given them by John Kerry in his infamous 1971 testimony. 2. No shouting or contact with others with different opinions: we fought for their rights then, and we...